Japanese authorities are set to recommend new fair disclosure rules that aim to prevent company executives from leaking insider information, part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push to improve corporate governance and encourage foreign investment. Marking the first time that Japan will adopt statutory ...

International equity investors are giving up on Japan. After dumping their Tokyo stock holdings for four of the past five months, foreigners are on track for their biggest annual exodus since 1987. Back then, they were fleeing bubbly valuations and the Black Monday crash. ...

Japan’s property market is luring more attention from Asian investors keen to reap capital gains or achieve high yields not available at home with a long-term view of holding their assets. Money is flowing mostly from Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China and Singapore, with ...

Shares of Apple sank below $90 for the first time in nearly two years Thursday, ceding the title of the world’s largest company by market valuation to Google. With investors souring on the outlook for sales of its market-leading iPhones and iPads, and no ...

For the first year since 1989, foreign investors sold Japanese stocks and missed a rally. Overseas investors, who account for more than two-thirds of trading in Tokyo, cut holdings in 2015 even as the Topix index climbed 8.9 percent in dollars and 21 percent ...

The trustee recovering money lost by investors with imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff reported a new milestone Tuesday, saying a new distribution will mean allowable claims of $1.1 million or less will have been fully reimbursed. Trustee Irving Picard made the announcement as he asked ...

Whether part-time or professional, Japan’s stock investors are heading for the exits. Sell orders from large foreign pension funds contributed to Monday’s slump, according to Credit Suisse Group AG, as the value of the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, home to the ...

Yoshiaki Murakami failed to win approval for his plan to get seats on Kuroda Electric Co.’s board. The activist investor’s proposal to appoint himself and three others as outside directors at the electronics trading company was defeated with about 60 percent of shareholders voting ...

Kuroda Electric Co. says adding Japanese activist investor Yoshiaki Murakami to its board would damage the company’s reputation. Murakami, C&I Holdings Co. and related firms have taken a 16 percent stake in the electronic-parts trading company and are asking shareholders to appoint four new ...

Yoshiaki Murakami, Japan’s first homegrown activist investor, will probably win board seats at Kuroda Electric Co. in his return to proxy fights after many years, according to his daughter. Aya Murakami, 27, speaks for her father and the investment group that built a stake ...

Labor activists worry that a U.S.-led free-trade deal under negotiation will prioritize corporate profits over workers’ rights and pressure governments to bow to the will of investors. Trade ministers from the 12 nations negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would stretch from Japan to Chile ...

Billionaire Daniel Loeb is starting to make a habit of looking for bargains in Japan. In his fourth foray in two years in the country, the New York-based activist investor has taken a stake in Suzuki Motor Corp. The investment comes after Loeb’s Third ...